sharing myself...

Being in teaching from past few months am able to find the
off record politics in the field at the college level and at the departmental
level. Observing closely the functioning of the head of the department, am able
to make out how he makes money easily and of course illegally. But no enough
proofs to prove him wrong!

As I mentioned in the earlier blog, post graduate degree is
a must for those who want to be in the teaching post of engineering colleges.
Many who have joined with the graduate degrees are willing to pursue
post-graduate courses but because of the commitments, they are not able to
leave their full time job and pursue post-graduation. In such cases, the only
thing such people deriving of post-graduate courses will rely on colleges
giving full attendance and full marks in the internal tests even without
writing it. For the attendance and marks a head of the department can demand up
to 10,000 to 20,000 bucks depending upon the candidate’s financial stability!

Other way around, all the management seats will be generally
having high fee structure and the candidates mentioned above will not be able
to pay such high fees. Then, again the head of the department will interfere in
the matter as in the movie, some how the head will be able to reduce the fees
substantially using his influence and links in the administrative section,
saving a grand 70,000 to 80,000 bucks for each candidate. Hunger of money will
not be over for the head of the department, he will call each candidate and
inform about fee reduction and asks to pay him 20,000 bucks as commission!

Money matter will not be over here. It continues even in
names of workshops and projects. Post Graduate engineering courses requires
dissertation to be submitted at the end of the second year as the requirement
for the fulfillment of course. Head of the department will make sure that
students are enrolled for the projects in the institute which he mentions.
Making some useless guidelines, he will make the student helpless as he can
play with their degrees, without any objection students will obey and pay the
prescribed fees.

Organizing workshops is one more thing conducted in the name
of benefit to students, even though the actual benefits are for the head of the
department and the organizing institute by the student’s money. The companies
and institutes organizing workshops will be decided on the commission they are
going to offer to the head of the department!

By making and arranging all these hide and seek, a head of
the department can earn up to 8 to 10 lakhs per year apart from his regular
salary. If any associate or colleague in the same department is not
co-operating in these matters will be legally terminated blaming or through any
engineered process!

PS: This blog is not about any one person, it is by observing
few heads of the departments of some reputed colleges in the recent past which
I had come across. There are many who has lived as examples without these strings attached, but there are very few and rare.